A film to wake up Brescia's museums after the virus: a journey through the city's museum heritage

Fondazione Brescia Musei, in collaboration with SMK Factory, has produced L’Ora del Risveglio, a film by Nicola Zambelli that aims to be a tribute to the city of Brescia and its historical-artistic heritage and to promote the artistic-cultural reawakening of the city.

It is a true journey through Brescia’s museum heritage produced on the occasion of its reopening to the public, from the Museo delle Armi to the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, the Museo di Santa Giulia to the Capitolium.

The film, conceived as a performance and made over five days and five nights, consists of five acts, punctuated in five verses, and features the figure of a janitor who, after waking up on a flowery meadow in the Brescia Castle, begins a dreamlike journey inside a number of museum spaces, such as the Luigi Marzoli Weapons Museum, the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, the Museum of Santa Giulia and the Capitolium: a journey that sheds new light on the cultural meanings of places, establishes symbolic relationships with the works housed in the museums, and reminds each of us how everyone is the guardian of the common space he or she inhabits, of the collective life in which he or she participates and to whose growth he or she can contribute.

The five acts are preceded by a documentary-style prologue that places the janitor’s journey in the historical moment in which the performance takes place. The number five is associated with the Archetype of the Seeker, a symbol of exploration and change.

“An invitation to contemplate the outer and inner beauty that belongs to us,” Zambelli concludes, “but at the same time a stimulus to look confidently toward the future and to sharing as a form of resilience.”

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A film to wake up Brescia's museums after the virus: a journey through the city's museum heritage

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